Love Yourself! - Zartaj Shaikh (reading the story of the .TXT) 📗

you pay a price. That price is one gets hair fall, breakouts, put’s on weight, immunity get weaker, u start falling sick more often, you start looking malnourished, puffy eyes with dark circles, dry skin, hormonal imbalance, mood swings (we keep them in check by studying constantly), bad eyes (almost 90% of the student after taking science stream ends up getting specs).

 

 

I had to pay this price as well. I had lost the well sculpted body that I had created by working hard in high school. I had breakouts, dry skin, hair fall, everything listed above happened with me. Including I got specs in the first term of 11th grade itself.

 

 

From here on I’ll be telling you about what I did to tackle all this. I’ll share with you every detail possible. Also I’ll write the conversation (first one when from whence she started helping me) with my mentor, my biology teacher who helped me with becoming better and tackling all this problems, in next chapter. Keep waiting for the updates. And this book will guide you through everything possible!

The art of self-love

 

Learn to love yourself unconditionally without fail, and find the time to explore and indulge yourself. Happiness will follow…

 

I know my dear readers that I promised I would be writing about my journey to love myself but today I came across an article on self-love which I wanted to share with you people hence I am writing that here.

 

Article extracted from Times Life…rev up your life! Weekly Newspaper (4 pages, A supplement of Sunday Times of India August 2, 2015; MUM)

 

If you want to live happy life, tie it to a goal, not objects or a person, Albert Einstein had said. These days, psychologists, happiness coaches and meditation gurus are going a step further saying that the first step to lead to a happy life on a day-to-day basis begins when one makes self-love the first goal of life. It doesn’t mean one stops caring for other people; the mantra of self-love is to set happiness goals for yourself, without expectations from others, or involving loved ones. Self-love does not depend on gender or marital status. Whether married or single, man or woman, people are travelling alone, romancing and indulging themselves and even marrying themselves! A Japanese travel company recently started a new service to let women enjoy solo weddings- marrying without the groom. Single women enjoy all the fun and glamour of the Big Day, including spending the honeymoon night in a fancy hotel.

 

Whether you are single or married, man or woman- travelling alone, pampering yourself and loving yourself unconditionally has to be taken seriously. Jean Fain, author of The Self-Compassion Diet, says “The notion of kindness to the self needs to be spread. Unless there’s a conscious effort to love oneself, we’d all get caught up in the frenzy of our hectic daily schedules and be unhappy.”

 

“Practice Self-Compassion and Self-Love”

Manasi Scott, Singer:

 

Women should stop looking outwards at anyone to make themselves happy. Be committed to yourself to experience joy. Give yourself happiness, love, respect, and treat yourself right, can you show it to others. Devote 10 minutes to self-kindness meditation and promise to love your faults and strengths. Be your own admirer.

 

“Self-Kindness starts with you”

Tahir Ali, Model:

 

We look for approval for every little thing we do. Loving yourself will raise your self-esteem. How do you love yourself? Create a self-love ritual, evolve spiritually, and treat your body as your temple. Let go off negative people and episodes. Loving yourself is all about finding your happy place and being there.

 

Solo romance

 

Snow White doesn’t wait for prince charming to find and love her- she saves herself with a kiss and hug; neither does sleeping beauty wait for the prince to wake her from her eternal sleep- she to wakes herself up, gives herself a tight hug and kiss. Middle Eastern artist Saint Hoax gave a new bold message to young women in his series, ‘Save yourself’ where he removed men from fairy tales and replaced them with princesses kissing and hugging themselves. He says “My series is about self-love. The message doesn’t mean you are not allowed to love anyone else. On the contrary, once you understand and appreciate yourself, it’s easier to love other people.”

How I lost weight?

 

Well this chapter will be all about what I did in order to lose weight!

 

It wasn’t easy to do so. But I can tell you one thing it was worth all the hard work. My day would start with me having milk and some breakfast. Mostly eggs because they are good source of protein and can be made in variety of ways. I would carry some nuts and dates with me to snack on during in between lectures. For lunch I would have vegetables with roti (i.e. Indian bread). As I love to eat rice more than roti I would at times indulge in eating rice without worrying that it’ll fatten me up.

 

There is a myth about rice that people say that one who eats more rice fattens up. But that’s totally wrong. It is not so at all. If you love to eat rice you can do so. It is not what you eat but instead it’s about how much you eat.

 

Rest of the day I would try not to indulge in the street food or the so called fast food. Instead if I felt hungry like really very hungry then I would indulge in toasted vegetable sandwich. For dinner I would have whatever was made at home. Be it heavy or light food. Only the portion would vary. If there was light food like salad and vegetables I would eat more but if there was some heavy food like biryani or mughlai food with lots of cream and oil I would eat less. As I would be staying awake till late I would have midnight snacks. No midnight snacks won’t make you heavy if you are about to stay awake. In fact when you stay awake till late then your body does need those calories.

 

Even when one follows this it won’t show you results because it’s not only about what we eat or how much we eat but also about what we think about what we are thinking. A food will make you gain or lose weight when you think it will make you gain or lose weight respectively. If you will think of your food as only some calories then that’s how your food will be for you. Instead try to enjoy what you are eating. And eat what you love you. You want to have that bowl of your favorite ice cream go ahead and enjoy you won’t put on weight.  

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Publication Date: 11-10-2014

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Dedication:
to all my friends and family for supporting me and for all readers who wanna live a great life! thanks you! :)